The Big Blog of Low Self-Esteem

"A practical, if heartbreaking, roadmap. ... This book should be required reading for anyone suffering from low self-esteem, and while it will likely cause readers to tear up repeatedly, the empathy and grounded advice is sure to help inspire healing."
-- Publishers Weekly

"Unmasking and destigmatizing the mantle of doubt, fear, guilt and self-blame under which millions of otherwise average Americans quietly suffer and detailing the ways in which self-haters can start to build toward a more accurate understanding of themselves. ...Brutally candid. ... A clarion call to those who struggle with self-loathing that they aren't alone or powerless and that they are capable of healing their battered souls."
-- Forbes

About Unworthy

Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself is a book about one of the worst feelings in the world: the feeling that you’d rather be anyone but you. Self-loathing can happen to anyone, but it is almost never reality-based. Nor need it be our permanent fate. Like the book whose name it shares, this blog is a gathering place for all of us who want to stop hating ourselves. It examines the many ways in which we lost our self-esteem, reveals the many weird things it makes us do — some of which are survival techniques in disguise — and offers positive strategies that can help us regain it.

And hey: In this strange selfie-riddled world, you don’t have to love yourself — but you don’t have to hate yourself, either.

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About Unworthy — 3 Comments

Thank you so much for writing this book. Your words and stories resonated so much with me. For the first time in my life I don’t feel alone. I’m a forty-something professional woman who struggles with low self esteem every single day. I feel very alone because none of my friends (at least from what I can tell, but I’m pretty sure) suffer from this to the extent that I do. I have parents who are insecure with low self esteem, who were/are not very loving or nurturing, and probably never should have had children. My upbringing deeply affected me and I’m only realizing this now through therapy. I wish there was an online forum on this topic. Other than with my therapist, I can’t really talk about this with anyone.

Thank you for this fantastic book! It came along at just the right time for me. I had a breakthrough recently discovering that this very critical voice inside of me originated from a controlling, judgmental dad. I am learning to invite these critical voices in (inviting your demons to tea) to decrease their power over me. And your book has given me even more validation! Thank you!